subsidies

Your weekly news roundup on everything environment

In this week's issue:

Senate to Vote on Oil Tax Subsidies

EPA announces first-ever limits on global warming pollution.

Dolphins of the Gulf are Gravely Ill

New Study Links Extreme Weather to Climate Change

FDA Court-Ordered to Regulate Antibiotics in Livestock

Environmental Action staff from across the country just went to DC to deliver a petition you signed asking Congress to ban fracking.  We didn't go alone - in addition to a dozen staff and thousands of your signatures, we brought a bottle of 'fracked up water' from a member in PA and delivered it to the front door of the American Petroleum Institute, the chief lobbyist for the Frackers in DC.

It's called Big Oil for a reason -- the oil industry has spent the past century using its wealth to ensure both political power and a kind of omnipresence in our lives that requires us to use oil products at almost every turn.